Companies formed
Since 1987, Oxford University Innovation has been responsible for creating spinout companies based on academic research generated within and owned by the University of Oxford, and in recent years has spun out 15-20 new companies every year.
Over £2.5bn in external investment has been raised by Oxford University Innovation spinouts since 2010, and ten of our current portfolio are currently listed in London and New York.
The creation of new spinout companies, most of which are listed below, also channels millions of pounds back into University research, benefits local economic development and has created many new jobs in the region.
Blue Field Labs
Expertise and knowledge regarding data privacy, ethics, data security and public policy in connection with technology use.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, The Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Simcell
Focused on creating novel biosensors for food safety testing.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Engineering
OXDH
Oxford Digital Innovation encompasses three different products. Two of them are online health records platform which aim to integrate NHS data (Zygote – IVF platform – and Simba – maternity platform). The 3rd platform is a virtual hospital which is aimed at scheduling appointments for patients and enable online consultations in specific specialisations, starting with eye care, skin care, pathology and dental medicine.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Nuffield Dept of Women's and Reproductive Health
Open Clinical
Open Clinical aims to create a publicly available resource to benefit clinicians and patients.
Incorporated in August 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Engineering
PhishAR
Augmented reality cybersecurity assistant.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Computer Science
Contact: David Howells
Dark Blue Therapeutics
Research and experimental development on biotechnology.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Oncology
Global Health Research Accelerator CIC
Aim is to accelerate and streamline research through an innovative digital platform for knowledge sharing.
Incorporated in July 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Tropical Medicine
Oxsed
A lean spin-out, social enterprise focusing on developing a fast rapid COVID-19 test. Joint Oxford University and OSCAR company.
Incorporated in June 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Engineering
Contact: Jane Jin
Base Genomics (acquired by Exact Sciences)
DNA methylation detection using this TAPS technology. Base Genomics was acquired by Exact Sciences in October 2020.
Incorporated in June 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Qdot
High heat flux technology. The company will provide advanced engineering solutions to challenging thermal problems such as those that occur in fusion reactors, or high power density electronic systems.
Incorporated in April 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Thermofluids Institute
Contact: Adrian Coles
OxEd
Development of a platform for the standardisation of assetments to facility language, reading and arithmetic skills in children.
Incorporated in April 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Education
GaitQ
Improving the lives of people living with Parkinson’s.
Incorporated in March 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Contact: Richard Auburn
Spintex Engineering
To develop commercially scalable manufacturing process for spinning spider silk.
Incorporated in January 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Zoology
Contact: Adam Workman
Living Optics
3D laser spectrometer and single shot hyperspectral imaging.
Incorporated in January 2020
Origin: Oxford University, Physics
Contact: Steve Silvey
2019
ORCA Computing
building a scalable, modular and flexible quantum computing platform.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University
Ground Truth Labs
Mining large digital pathology datasets through a web platform that can manage a crowd sourced approach to annotation.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University, IBME and NDM
Ivy Farm
First commercial producer of sustainable, guilt-free meat.
Incorporated in December 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Global Malaria Vaccinces
Malaria vaccine development.
Incorporated in September 2019
Origin: Oxford University, Jenner Institute
GyreOx
GryeOx addresses significant unmet need in drug discovery as the IP can make expanded drug libra of macrocycles in the hit to lead stage.
Incorporated in July 2019
Origin: Oxford University
Lime Biosciences
DNA assembly.
Incorporated in July 2019
Origin: Oxford University
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